Manager, Software Engineering

Mastercard; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in Dublin seeks an experienced engineering leader to manage and grow a software engineering team delivering secure, scalable payment platforms. You will lead major projects, drive architecture, and foster a high-performance culture across cross-functional partners.

You will mentor engineers to deliver high-quality solutions, optimize processes, and ensure alignment with Mastercard standards and security practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on technical leader with experience in managing applications and resources.
• Lead an engineering team that will build, operate and maintain software to meet business needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve business goals.
• Define metrics for team delivery and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead major projects with broad scope and long-term business impact.
• Create innovative, cost-effective, high-quality solutions with faster time to market.
• Oversee day-to-day development and maintenance to meet SLAs.
• Learn and adopt new technologies and guide multiple concurrent initiatives.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People management

System design

Cloud architecture

Messaging systems

Security and compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

CI/CD

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Manager, Software Engineering

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title And Summary

Manager, Software Engineering

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

The Payment Cancellation Service enables issuers to block specific unwanted card-not-present transactions during authorization and clearing, reducing associated chargebacks and helping to ensure a positive cardholder experience.

Role

Successfully lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications. Create solutions with high level of innovation, cost effectiveness, high quality and faster time to market. Lead day-to-day system development and maintenance activities to meet service level agreements (SLAs). Skilled at learning quickly, implementing new technologies, frameworks and tools and supporting multiple concurrent activities.

All About You

• Hands-on technical leader with experience in managing applications and resources
• Lead an engineering team that will build, operate and maintain software to meet business needs
• Obsessed with results, and effectively communicate the objectives and how success will be measured to the team members.
• Collaborate with other teams (ex. Business stakeholders, production operations, program management) to achieve business goals.
• Develop and drive metrics for team delivery through in-house and vendor (SaaS) based tools.
• Innovate for our internal Customers - take a long-term perspective to build systems and features.
• Interface with internal business stakeholders to understand requirements, priorities, and processes
• Help define long-term development and business technology strategies
• Hire, mentor, and retain a best-of-class engineering team and foster strong team culture
• Perform Quality Inspections and Walkthroughs, Architecture Review, Design Review, Code Review and Security Review to ensure compliance with MasterCard standards. Advanced Software development experience with intermediate experience as a Development Manager.
• Advanced knowledge of Software Engineering Concepts and Methodologies
• Detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Strong communication skills - both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaboration skills.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.